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TIL Gillette created an animated video on how to shave your genitals. [NSFW]

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m1G8y TIL Grand Duchess Olga, oldest child of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, was a nurse in a military hospital during WW1
VMeam TIL of Elan School, a child behavior modification camp operating from 1970-2011. Using Lord of The Flies style techniques, they would psychologically destroy the children for years, leading to extraordinarily high suicide rates. If a child escaped, bounty hunters would chase them across the country.
R7A7j TIL that Disney's Home on the Range was originally scripted as a film called Sweating Bullets. Instead of talking animals, it was about a nervous cowboy who goes to a ghost town to face off against an undead cattle hustler named Slim.
e04MJ TIL the first computer mouse was wooden, created in 1964 and named "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System"
Xa8Q TIL: Of a Chechen terrorist attack in Moscow theater in 2002. Of the 130 people who died in the attack, only 1 was killed by terrorists, the other 129 were killed by the Russian special forces trying to rescue them.